![]() The decadence of the Weimer Republic was chronicled by Christopher Isherwood in The Berlin Stories, part of which was later adapted into Cabaret. The swells and flappers of the Roaring Twenties made an appearance in The Great Gatsby. "The Lost Generation" of Americans trying to find themselves in Paris gathered around Gertrude Stein in Paris. ![]() ![]() The Bright Young People (or Bright Young Things, as others called them) are the British incarnation of an international phenomenon that had erupted in the 20s after World War I. The Bright Young People, as newspapers had dubbed them, were routinely featured (and pilloried) in society pages and opinion columns alike as they set the tone for a society teetering on the edge of an abyss. But more than likely, she, along with most of London, had read about such reckless, rich people running amok through London. Whether Winifred Watson, the author of the 1938 novel, had partied with similar folk is doubtful. Every where she turns, snappy, oh-so-clever young people are racing to fashion shows and parties, gossiping about who's in the paper and who just landed in prison, who's sleeping with whom and who hasn't slept in days. ![]() ![]() In Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, when the singer/actress/woman-about-town Delysia La Fosse pulls a poor, hungry mouse of a governess into her glamorously giddy world, Miss Pettigrew has never seen anything like it. ![]()
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